{"id":35478,"date":"2018-08-14T09:09:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T07:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=35478"},"modified":"2018-08-14T09:11:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T07:11:39","slug":"how-a-blacklisted-russian-firm-won-and-lost-a-break-from-trumps-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/how-a-blacklisted-russian-firm-won-and-lost-a-break-from-trumps-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Blacklisted Russian Firm Won (and Lost) a Break From Trump\u2019s Tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"TweetTextSize TweetTextSize--jumbo js-tweet-text tweet-text\" data-aria-label-part=\"0\" lang=\"en\"><a class=\"account-group js-account-group js-action-profile js-user-profile-link js-nav\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenWarren\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-user-id=\"970207298\"><span class=\"FullNameGroup\"> <strong class=\"fullname show-popup-with-id u-textTruncate \" data-aria-label-part=\"\">Elizabeth Warren<\/strong>\u200f:&nbsp;<\/span><\/a>My office found that Rusal America Corp \u2013 a subsidiary of a sanctioned company controlled by a Russian oligarch &amp; Putin ally \u2013 got an exemption from <s>@<\/s><b>realDonaldTrump<\/b>\u2019s aluminum tariffs days after he met with Putin in Helsinki. I asked the Trump Admin why.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1i0edl6 e2kc3sl0\">Hundreds of companies have asked the Trump administration for a special break from its sweeping aluminum tariffs. Few have succeeded. One that managed to get an exemption is a Russian firm currently subject to Treasury Department sanctions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1i0edl6 e2kc3sl0\">How Rusal America \u2014 a branch of a Russian metals giant controlled by an oligarch with close ties to President Vladimir V. Putin \u2014 managed to win an exclusion highlights the chaotic and unwieldy process surrounding President Trump\u2019s tariffs&#8230;&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/09\/us\/politics\/rusal-tariff-exemption.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NYTimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1i0edl6 e2kc3sl0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/how-a-blacklisted-russian-firm-won-and-lost-a-break-from-trumps-tariffs\/donald-trump-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment noopener wp-att-35479\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35479\" src=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Donald-Trump.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Donald-Trump.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Donald-Trump-300x183.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Donald-Trump-492x300.jpeg 492w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Warren\u200f:&nbsp;My office found that Rusal America Corp \u2013 a subsidiary of a sanctioned company controlled by a Russian oligarch &amp; Putin ally \u2013 got an exemption from @realDonaldTrump\u2019s aluminum tariffs days after he met with Putin in Helsinki. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/how-a-blacklisted-russian-firm-won-and-lost-a-break-from-trumps-tariffs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35478"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35484,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35478\/revisions\/35484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}